He’s too old to be doing that kind of work anyway
That will tear you down at that age
**He’s too old to be doing that kind of work anyway**
Hydration!! And no soda pop or sugar bomb teas!! And controlling the waistline!
I’m 69, and was digging potatoes at midday for my 84 and 90 year old neighbors last August. Drank a LOT of water.
As a full time truck driver from age 47 thru 66, I found out early in that profession that I needed to maintain the lean limber physique. It was easy to do that as a grain and livestock farmer, and at the steel fabrication jobs. But trucking was not as physical. Just briefly each day: such as wrestling a tarp over open flatbed cargo was demanding; especially on hot days (those black tarps get real hot), or climbing in an asphalt dump trailer at days end, that just unloaded asphalt (that was a steam bath, the walls and floor being 200° plus. There was always a few shovel fulls to scrape out before it hardened).
Therefore, before showering at days end, I would do (and still do) some exercises, and run sprints or ride bike (I hate jogging and I ride bike at a fast pace to get it over with quickly. I’m not interested in taking more than an hour to do the routine. And I only do it 3 or 4 times a week).
Conditioning and diet; and plenty of water on hot days.
People have health issues that they didn’t ask for or deserve. I get that. But the majority of the health problems are from bad decisions.
The summer I turned 11 I, after seeing an old Tarzan episode, where he jumped from a branch to grab another one, missed, and tumbled down through the old maple and smacked the ground, breaking my left femur. After traction and crutches I was almost good as new, except for an occasional backache. It would be another 35 years before that L4-L5 disc would finally degenerate to where I needed surgery.
That has been a key motivator for keeping the weight off all these years.